It's Not A Surprise Single Mothers Are Worst Hit By The Benefit Cap – But It Should Be A Shock

Austerity has made single parents more likely to experience poverty, be sanctioned or suffer from ill health – urgent change is needed to protect the life chances of them and their children

The news that most householders affected by the benefit cap are single mothers should not be a surprise – but it should be a shock.

It should not be a surprise, because ever since the government imposed the benefit cap in 2013, it has been clear that a significant proportion of those affected would be parents, especially single parents – and we knew already that most of those are female – although the latest proportion according to the Labour Party is even higher than...
source: The Huffington Post

Asteroid Bennu, a leftover fragment from the violent formation of the solar system, is an extraterrestrial time capsule for space scientists. Consequently, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission – one of the most ambitious space missions ever attempted – is studying the distant asteroid to

The findings give clues to the origin of the solar system as well as life on Earth. The US space agency launched a spacecraft to study the asteroid Bennu in 2016 which arrived December 2018. Mission reports from uncrewed OSIRIS-REx comments on the “unexpected surface of asteroid